POINTS OF INTEREST IN PUEGNAGO DEL GARDA

It is also called Church of San Michele after the locality in which it is found, near the cemetery. With a single nave anrustic façade, it is one of the most recent Romanesque churches of the Valtenesi area and probably dates back to the second...

Here the Blessed Don Giuseppe Baldo celebrates His first Mass in the native country and here he usually retires in prayer. Closed between the surrounding houses, it opens onto the village square with a beautiful white stone portal of Botticino. The...

This is merely the ruins of an ancient irregularly shaped fortress built in a hexagonal shape to follow the hill on which it stands. It was probably built between the 9th and 10th centuries to guard against barbarian invasions. The tower has since...

In Puegnago, the humid inter-morainic zone forms three small lakes: the lakes of Sovenigo. On the largest of the three, the magical flowering of the lotus flowers, imported from Japan, takes place in July and AugusThey bloom first on the lakes of...

Constructed at the beginning of the 17th century, inside it has 18th century paintings by Cattaneo and Zadei as well as a fabulous Via Crucis by Dusi. Vicentini was responsible for the altarpiece on the high altar depicting San Michele Arcangelo.

In the centre of the town the church of San Giovanni Battista is to be found, its construction dating back to the 16th century: here relics of the saint, also portrayed in a painting while he baptises Christ, have been conserved since 1736.